The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson.Boston Houghton Mifflin : 1930. Limited edition to 1500 copies. G Hardcover in dj Good Fair, some wear and tears to dj. Small octavo 86 pp. "Who was taken prisoner by the Indians with several others and treated in the most barbarous and cruel manner by those vile savages".
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30.00 USD

Abbott, Lawrence edit.I Stand in the Center of the Good.University of Nebraska 1994. 080321037X / 9780803210370 Hardcover in DJ Good, remainder mark on foreedge. Good Octavo Octavo 292 pp What is Indian art? There have been many attempts to define it, but the so-called Santa Fe style of the 1930s - placid, two dimensional depictions of traditional scenes - set the standard by which subsequent art by Native Americans would be judged. Art that radically challenged the stereotype - the work of Joe Herrera, Fritz Scholder, and T.C. Cannon, for example - met with resistance; questions were raised about its authenticity as Indian art. Today's Indian art has resoundingly overturned old preconceptions: here are cartoon figures in throbbing neon colors, "decorated" grocery bags, messages to America on the Spectator billboard in Times Square, delicate abstractions and cubist images, work that ranges from monotype and photography to mixed media and clay, from humor and biting commentary to quiet introspection. I Stand in the Center of Good, the first book of its kind, offers a forum for seventeen contemporary Native American artists to speak about the development of their art, their creative processes, how they define their art, and how it relates to their Indianness. The interviews are handsomely illustrated with works by the artists.
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20.00 USD

Borneman, WalterThe French & Indian War : Deciding the Fate of North America.Harper Collins 2006 0060761849 / 9780060761844 Hardcover in DJ Good Good Octavo 360 pp "In the summer of 1754, deep in the wilderness of western Pennsylvania, a very young George Washington suffered his first military defeat, and a centuries-old feud between Great Britain and France was rekindled."
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10.00 USD

Demos, JohnThe Unredeemed Captive.NY Knopf 1994 0394557824 / 9780394557823 Hardcover in DJ. Good Good Octavo 316 pp An account of the Puritan minister John Williams and his family, who were taken prisoner in a raid by a party of French and Indians on a Massachusetts village in 1704, during Queen Anne's War. Williams was eventually released by the French; however his wife and several of his children died while in captivity. The unredeemed captive of the title was his daughter Eunice, who converted to Roman Catholicism, married an Indian, and lived the rest of her life in Canada. John Demos explores the details of this story and interprets its meaning for 18th-century English-Americans.
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12.00 USD

Drinnon, RichardWhite Savage : The Case of John Dunn Hunter.Schocken Books 1972. Hardcover in DJ. Ex-lib, usual lib markings. Octavo 282 pp Biography of man who was captured by the Osage Indians, wrote an account of such and tried to save the American Indian from genocide beyond the Mississippi. Created the "Red and White Republic of Fredonia". Truth or not?
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10.00 USD

Ellis, RichardGeneral Pope and US Indian Policy.University of New Mexico Press 1970. 0826301916 / 9780826301918 Hardcover in DJ Good Good, sl waterstain on dj. Octavo 287 pp "This book tells the story of federal relationships with Western Indians as seen from the dominant position of General John Pope, U.S. military commander in the West, from the time of the Civil War to his retirement in 1886. Although Pope was perhaps the most important commander in the West during his era, the glory and the fame went to the men who carried out his orders: Dodge, Custer, Miles, Crook, Mackenzie, Grierson, Fetterman and others."
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20.00 USD

Feder, NormanAmerican Indian Art.Abrams 1971. 0810900149 / 9780810900141 Hardcover in DJ. Very light waterstain to cover, very light waterstain to upper corner of text block / water stain to dj front, spine and back. Quarto 446 pp 302 illus, 60 tipped in plates "The art forms of the American Indian nations of the Great Plains, the Southwest, California, the Great Basin, the Pacific Plateau, the Northwest, the Arctic, and the Woodlands are discussed and illustrated. The origin, stylistic variations from tribe to tribe, materials used, ecological aspects involved, and the future of American Indian art are discussed. "
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75.00 USD